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The group responsible is “Collective Shout”, the same org has targeted Steam before.

There are calls on social media now to contact Mastercard, Visa and co. and file complaints.

  • Gibibit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    16 days ago

    It’s nice to see a more reasonable response in the comments on Fediverse. On the itch discussion board people are frothing at the mouth posting death threats and the like against itch staff.

    The anger is completely misdirected. I wouldn’t be surprised if they decide to just let itch drop dead after this abuse from two sides simultaneously. Mega corps and rights groups at one side, and their very own users on the other.

    Once this review is complete, we will introduce new compliance measures. For NSFW pages, this will include a new step where creators must confirm that their content is allowable under the policies of the respective payment processors linked to their account.

    Itch is even willing to go for partial filtering, what more do you want. The only thing that will please these people is when itch waves their magic wand and keeps everything as is. Like folks here have said, accepting crypto payments might help, but who knows how soon that is going to get regulated.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      Once this review is complete, we will introduce new compliance measures. For NSFW pages, this will include a new step where creators must confirm that their content is allowable under the policies of the respective payment processors linked to their account.

      kind of a clever way to say “hey don’t give us grief, if you want to change this go complain to visa and mastercard.”

    • hisao@ani.socialEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      Like folks here have said, accepting crypto payments might help, but who knows how soon that is going to get regulated.

      It’s kinda impossible to regulate technically. That’s the whole point of crypto. Or do you mean that the company itself might be legally prohibited to accept crypto by their local law? That’s possible I think. I guess we’re slowly but steadily approaching the demand to have actual darknet fully-crypto gaming platform operated by anonymous team.

          • ipitco@lemmybefree.netEnglish
            0·
            16 days ago

            Except Monero and a few exceptions, AML and KYC checks are everywhere. Tainted coins and shit.

            Crypto goes somewhere that they don’t like? Crypto is seized when it reaches an exchange and they ask for ID and source of funds

            • hisao@ani.socialEnglish
              0·
              16 days ago

              Crypto goes somewhere that they don’t like? Crypto is seized when it reaches an exchange and they ask for ID and source of funds

              I don’t understand. Lets say I have a normal bank card, I paid taxes for all the money I got there. Sometimes I buy crypto using p2p on some platform using this card. I trade this crypto with some other crypto on the same platform. Periodically I send crypto to my personal wallet from there. From my personal wallet I buy porn games for example. At which point someone comes in and seizes anything?

              • ipitco@lemmybefree.netEnglish
                0·
                15 days ago

                They would not, but you would not be anonymous this way. You get problems when:

                • The crypto you received is through a shady source (it could be any individual which pays you with dirty coins)
                • You engaged in pro-privacy activity, which links you with illegal activity, like coin mixers to blur the origin and destination of crypto
                • You received more crypto than you bought

                As long as you stay with centralized exchanges and directly send crypto to some websites, you should in theory always be fine (as long as you don’t send them to criminal or pro-privacy services), but that’s not the original goal of crypto

                Apart from that, some countries straight up force you to declare every transaction you make with crypto, which isn’t doable for most people and puts them in illegality

                • hisao@ani.socialEnglish
                  0·
                  15 days ago

                  You don’t have to send crypto from exchange directly to websites. You can send it to your external wallet (outside of any platform), and spend from there. And no one’s ever going to be able to prove that wallet belongs to you.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      It’s nice to see a more reasonable response in the comments on Fediverse. On the itch discussion board people are frothing at the mouth posting death threats and the like against itch staff.

      Sounds like the bar is so low to be even comparing the two sites.